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1855 Franklin College Oct 22d Brother Darden, Your letter of the 8th is at hand, and I reply without delay. In regard to the progress of Thadeus & Horatio, I feel more deeply mortified than you can. Contrary, however, to your intimations, they have been put more than once at Latin Greek etc, but utterly failed from indolence or incapacity. My purpose has been for some time past, to make Thadeus an English scholar, and with this ^view, he has had nothing to do but study, still he makes slow improvement. As to their labor, Horatio has never been worth a shilling, but Thadeus did pretty well while I had him at any little jobs of work. But I will have no more of his labor. My wish is still to give him the means of improvement. These, I am sorry to say are not the only youths that have failed with ^us, but my consolation is, the conviction that we have succeeded with more youths than any school in my acquaintance to the number of entries.

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1855 Franklin College Oct 22d Brother Darden, Your letter of the 8th is at hand, and I reply without delay. In regard to the progress of Thadeus & Horatio, I feel more deeply mortified than you can. Contrary, however, to your intimations, they have been put more than once at Latin Greek etc, but utterly failed from indolence or incapacity. My purpose has been for some time past, to make Thadeus an English scholar, and with this ^view, he has had nothing to do but study, still he makes slow improvement. As to their labor, Horatio has never been worth a shilling, but Thadeus did pretty well while I had him at any little jobs of work. But I will have no more of his labor. My wish is still to give him the means of improvement. These, I am sorry to say are not the only youths that have failed with ^us, but my consolation is, the conviction that we have succeeded with more youths than any school in my acquaintance to the number of entries.